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How Channel One News helped create the youth obesity crisis.

January 6, 2012
How Channel One News helped create the youth obesity crisis.


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Channel One News Hall of Shame: Wash those M&M’s down with some Pepsi (May 1997)

September 25, 2011
Channel One News Hall of Shame: Wash those M&M’s down with some Pepsi (May 1997)


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Complete, unedited Channel One News for May 19, 1997

September 24, 2011
Complete, unedited Channel One News for May 19, 1997


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Channel One News Hall of Shame: Four commercials from one day (Oct. 5, 1998)

September 4, 2011
Channel One News Hall of Shame: Four commercials from one day (Oct. 5, 1998)

                    From Jim Metrock: Was there no one at Channel One News during the 90’s that ever paused to consider that advertising candy, potato chips, and sugary soft drinks to kids could be detrimental to them? Commercially exploiting schoolchildren is a terrible thing to do....
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Kent Haehl Redux

November 5, 2007
Kent Haehl Redux

  From Jim Metrock: Channel One News is no longer hiding the fact its main mission is to help advertisers connect with young people. The new CEO of Channel One News is Kent Haehl. He used to be Channel One’s Vice President of Sales. He was the man responsible for some awful commercials in...
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Channel One News Is A National Joke

March 8, 2006
Channel One News Is A National Joke

Last night on The Colbert Report, March 7, 2006 The Colbert Report is a spin-off of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart on the Comedy Channel. On the show last night the host reported on the study in the American Academy of Pediatrics journal Pediatrics. The study said that Channel One poses an “ethical dilemma” for schools (that...
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Channel One News Kicks Off August 11

August 1, 2003

From Jim Metrock: As this school year starts, there is more opposition to Channel One News than ever before. The company is paying the price for years of insensitivity to its captive audience of students. Expect more ads for profanity-filled, sexually-charged, ultra-violent, drug and alcohol drenched movies from our friends at Channel One News.  These Channel One...
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Turning Up The Sexual Tension In Class

April 19, 2003
Turning Up The Sexual Tension In Class

She’s hot and she’s back in your child’s class. These images are from the newest Shakira/Pepsi ad playing now on Channel One News. It was shown in middle schools and high schools. Shakira comes to life in a convenience store and hikes her leg up as the stunned employee grabs her thigh. Shakari is...
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27% of Channel One Commercials Are For Junk Food

September 10, 2002

Channel One has been running, on average, one junk food commercial a day for the last five years. That is one of the findings in a study Obligation, Inc. has just completed. 100 Channel One shows were reviewed from the 1997-98 school year to 2001-02. No shows from this school year were included. A separate study of...
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The Worst Commercial Ever On Channel One?

August 31, 2002
The Worst Commercial Ever On Channel One?

From Jim Metrock: It would be hard to call one Channel One commercial the all-time worst. Who could forget the topless ad for Stay Clear? Or the ad for the ultraviolent movie Supernova that actually showed people being killed and gutted on the classroom TV screen? Oh, Channel One executives have made some moronic decisions in what they...
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